Hunt for terrorists must respect HR: Robinson
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 10: UN human rights chief Mary Robinson, a critic of some aspects of the US-led hunt for the perpetrators of the Sept 11 attacks, said on Monday the...
5,000 foreigners still fighting: Qanooni
NEW DELHI, Dec 10: More than 5,000 foreign fighters are still in Afghanistan despite the rout of the Taliban, Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni said here on Monday....
Congress likely to bar US links with Criminal Court
WASHINGTON, Dec 10: The US Congress is expected to pass legislation barring any US cooperation with the proposed International Criminal Court, a Senate Republican aide said on Monday....
US officials meet Somali warlords
MOGADISHU, Dec 10: United States military officers visited Somalia on Sunday for talks with opposition warlords to identify potential “terrorist” targets in the anarchic country, sources close to the warlords said...
EU brands Hamas, Jihad ‘terrorist’
BRUSSELS, Dec 10: The European Union branded Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad “terrorist networks” for the first time on Monday and demanded that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat call an end...
Al-Qaeda putting up resistance: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, Dec 10: Fighting at caves in eastern Afghanistan has been intense and difficult with hard core Al-Qaeda fighters putting up stiff resistance to air and ground assaults on their mountain...
Muslims, Hindus clash in Kerala
COCHIN (India) Dec 10: Police fired in the air to control a crowd in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Monday where Hindus and Muslims clashed....
First rat embryo cloned in France
LONDON, Dec 10: A French biotechnology firm said on Monday it had produced the first living cloned rat embryo, paving the way for possible future advances in stem cell therapy....